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Slovakia has recently seen the largest public demonstrations in many years. Last Friday, some 30.000 people took to the streets in several cities and during the dramatic finale in front of the parliament building, the police used water cannons against the hard core of demonstrators for the first time since 1989, when the “Velvet Revolution” [...]
Political corruption is nothing new in Eastern European countries (and indeed elsewhere) but a new case in Slovakia, revealed ahead of the general election in March, has raised new questions over the extent of this persistent problem. The information contained in a leaked file code-named ‘Gorilla’ could have serious repercussions for Slovak politics. Euractiv reports [...]
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